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Not to quibble but do riff, riff, riff and guitar jam really count?????

Wish you'd have made it to the "magic numbers" night with Rosanne Cash in NYC or the "Costello sings Lowe and vice versa" show in SF to pump the number up a bit more

well..you remember RIFF RIFF RIFF on the 1983 tour, often played twice nightly. and the guitar jam was a good few minutes long. actually have the recorded soundcheck too somewhere. and you know me jmm...OCD for my numbers!

as i have surrendered to NOT being in Delaware tonight or New Hampshire tomorrow, i thought it time to update my ridiculous list here. again, this is by no means ME bragging about what i have seen, only about what ELVIS has done in front of my eyes!! yes, i thank God up above that i live in a great place to see him so often AND that i have been fortunate to have the luck AND health to get there. believe me folks, we NEVER know when all the sudden, we are gone from this life OR not capable of doing the things we love. so, this is a post reminding all to enjoy the life we are given, be pleased with what we get and thankful for another day. sadly, my heart aches for many gone before i wish they had and i would trade ALL of this above for one more day with a loved one or ten gone too soon. YOLO! peace, ba p.s. 6-25-2014 total = 673!

adds only one with the NEW EIWTB version, but rectifies my old glaring omission of the early Attractions 1984 version of I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY NOW and places the l.p. version into its proper chronologic order following NO ACTION in 1986. now at 675 for me!!!

ARE YOU KIDDING??? perfection...true marksmanship with that title VG. what i would like to know....has he been ambulating whenever possible with that song on this tour or was this indeed the first/(only) night????

I've just started on my list, BA - a question - do you count the same song done by different bands as different - i.e. Blame It On Cain by The Attractions, Confederates, Sugarcanes, Solo and with Larkin Poe - essentially the same song but 5 different versions ? is this one or five ?? I've just finished my 80s gigs and can't get over the variations and the missing ones too !!

sulky lad wrote:I've just started on my list, BA - a question - do you count the same song done by different bands as different - i.e. Blame It On Cain by The Attractions, Confederates, Sugarcanes, Solo and with Larkin Poe - essentially the same song but 5 different versions ? is this one or five ?? I've just finished my 80s gigs and can't get over the variations and the missing ones too !!

it is YOUR call sulky. doc goofs on me that i am too lenient in different version listings. however, let me explain it this way.he is not Bob Dylan who perpetually alters the song making it an impossibility to rate 'different' takes. he is more like Bruce, who in 1984/85, did a solo acoustic BORN TO RUN which NEEDED to be called a different take. just like the version of THE PROMISED LAND on his solo tours of 95 & 05.

with EC, it began on 12-31-81 for me in NYC when he did the very ballad take SLOW version of I CAN'T STAND UP!and again in 1984, when ONLY FLAME debuted on the solo tour and then appeared in BOTH forms in the same set that summer. HOW COULD I NOT CREDIT IT TWICE???

if you peruse my list, you will see that NO I DO NOT COUNT DIFFERENT BAND PERFORMANCES unless they are DIFFERENT in arrangement/style.Even on the SUGARCANES tours, the most likely for DIFFERENT versions, i did not deem more than 5 as truly different.HOWEVER, again, this is one mans opinion. like i suggested, peruse my list, see what you agree with, tell me if you think i'm wrong and have your own fun with it!!! and doc, please witness this fact: with the Larkin Poe versions of the other night, i did NOT credit any take on an older song as worthy of being labelled as a NEW arrangement. see, i am NOT too lenient.

Another late correction: my second paragraph here is actually quite wrong. As early as my very first show, I had to attribute alternate takes for each of OPPORTUNITY, HIGH FIDELITY and B MOVIE as well as IDLE HANDS as these were all markedly different than the ones that would be released on GET HAPPY!! nine months later.

sulky lad wrote:Thanks BA, this should while away the dark winter nights lol

oh yes, it can NOT be rushed. Especially if you are a paper and pen kind of guy like me. I had always kept my own notebook for my shows, so I had it the way I believed it was from the day after each show. But, if u are using the wiki, you might not get those "different" versions notated per show. Take your time, AND DO IT RIGHT!!! AND HAVE FUN!

I HAD TO UPDATE TONIGHT AFTER ALL THE INTERPLAY WITH SULKY TODAY! YOU KNOW I LOVE SHARING THE NUMBERS. SO...WITH A BIT OF LUCK; OCTOBER 22ND IN ATLANTIC CITY, IF I GET SIX SONGS THAT I NEVER SAW BEFORE, IT WILL MAKE FOR 700 DIFFERENT SONGS I HAVE SEEN. AND I NEED ALSO ONLY 32 SONGS TOTAL PLAYED THAT NIGHT TO GET TO THE 3000 CLUB FOR SONGS I HAVE SEEN EC PLAY LIVE!! NOW, HERE ARE TWO OTHER AMAZING STATS. CAN YOU BELIEVE??? POTENTIALLY ONLY 4.3 TIMES FOR EACH SONG PERFORMED STATISTICALLY AND 5.8 DIFFERENT SONGS PLAYED FOR EACH OF121 SHOWS IF EACH OF THESE HAPPEN ON THE NIGHT OF 10/22/16????

5.8 different songs per night pretty much epitomised why we all love Elvis live so much - he gives and gives live !!!I can't count the number of times I've been at a concert and exchanged incredulous glances with VG when we've suddenly heard a song we've never collectively heard before - Amsterdam with Larkin Poe and "I Turn Around" as a complete out of the blue song.

sulky lad wrote:5.8 different songs per night pretty much epitomised why we all love Elvis live so much - he gives and gives live !!!I can't count the number of times I've been at a concert and exchanged incredulous glances with VG when we've suddenly heard a song we've never collectively heard before - Amsterdam with Larkin Poe and "I Turn Around" as a complete out of the blue song.

agreed! how about TOMMYS COMING HOME at Carnegie? or when you get many in one night, like IMAGINATION, MY NEW HAUNT, KING OF CONFIDENCE & WHITE KNUCKLES like on 11-27-13...all on the last night of a tour no less?

and really, the 5.8 at 121 shows is what especially makes that number MASSIVE statistically.